7 Easy Stretches to Do at Work
Tightness in the shoulder, neck, and back often leads to fatigue, injury, soreness, and lack of mobility. It’s a casualty of the modern desk job. Good flexibility allows a muscle to lengthen and the joints to operate through a full range of motion. When muscles are elastic, your posture [...]

Back Care Tips To Stay Healthy – Vancouver Personal Trainer Advice
80% of the population will experience  back pain at some point during their lifetime. Strategies for promoting a healthy back can be categorized into physical, behavioral, and postural.
Physical:
-Strengthen abdominal muscles
(side bridges and planks)
-Strengthen hip extensors
(floor bridges and soft-knee dead lifts)
-Stretch hip flexors
(lunge stretch or [...]

Get Consistent – Try a Personal Trainer!
Have you have been doing the same routine for  months yet you don’t see results? You’re not meeting the goals you have or you can’t stay consistent? There is a big chance that a certified personal trainer will help you out a lot. First off, consistency is a key [...]

Pilates – Look and Feel Great!
Pilates is the exercise of choice for dancers, gymnasts, and a host of famous Hollywood celebrities, and now it finds itself firmly entrenched in the mainstream. So why is pilates so hot?

If you want a long, lean look without bulky muscles, but with all the strength, Pilates [...]

A few years ago I took a big step in my life, and decided to go see a chiropractor about the minor shoulder pains I was getting in my left side, and about how I just felt “un-even”.  It was one of the greatest decisions I made in my life. This guy showed me all [...]

ALL THE COLOURS OF YOUR ABS
Your abdominal region is a fairly complex muscle group. As of such, your training routines for them should be just as complex. There are 4 different groups that make up the entire abdominal region, and targeting all of them will bring about the best definition in your core.
The rectus abdominus is [...]

Training without a purpose? Do you lack definitive goals,and do you get down on yourself for it? Well…at least you’re still training! Remember, there’s so many benefits of working out. You may not even be aware of some of them. Here are a some great reasons as to why we do what we do in the gym.
-To reduce the risk of [...]

Personal Trainer Vancouver tips – Muscle Imbalance: Part 1 Overpowering trapezius muscles. Everybody has muscles groups that are weaker and some that are stronger. These muscles develop based on the way you move inside and outside the gym. Over time these imbalances will put strain on the joints and surrounding muscle tissues leading to injury. [...]

The Personal Trainer exercise of the day is the “side bridge”. It’s is a great way to activate core muscles in a stationary position. If you practise, it gets easy however, so here is a great way to make it a little tougher. Set yourself up in front of a cable machine and do a row [...]

Posture is one of the biggest influences on your training. If you don’t line up your body properly, you will not use the correct muscles and risk injury and long term problems with muscles joints tendons and ligaments.
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